Etiquette & taboos

Etiquette & taboos

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Sweden

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Site-specific notes 5

Taken from the "don'ts" on each site page here. Open a site for its full etiquette and background.

Vasa Museum

  • No flash in the museum (to protect the wooden hull)
  • don't touch the exhibits
  • don't be loud.

Swedish Midsummer

  • Trespassing in private homes and fields
  • pulling decorations off the midsummer pole
  • drinking in no-drinking zones

Visby

  • Climbing the crumbling walls of the church ruins
  • making noise in residential streets at night

Icehotel

  • Touching the surface of the ice artworks and leaving handprints
  • using open flames or heaters inside the ice suites

Abisko National Park

  • Don't light fires or pick plants in the national park
  • in winter don't leave the trails alone to head into the mountains